But it also covers her more tender years growing up in New York City and Long Island, how her early store, Pants Pub, ignited a small revolution in downtown fashion, and how subsequent boutiques became a refuge for fantastic misfits of all stripes. Patricia Field’s memoir covers the territory you’d expect it to cover: how she got her gig as the costume designer for Sex In the City (including a charming anecdote about how she convinced showrunner Darren Star that a tutu was far superior to a shift dress for Carrie’s ensemble in the opening credits), her more recent exploits as the force behind the eyeball-scorching outfits on Emily In Paris. –Taylor Antrim Sam by Allegra Goodman (January) His gothic predilections are not for everyone (the Trawler’s kills are grotesque) but the evocation of a certain kind of vacant privilege-a buried longing overlaid with studied dissociation-is masterful. Ellis holds nothing back through these 600 pages: baroque violence, startling eroticism, relentless cataloging of mood-specific song and movie titles. It stars none other than Ellis himself, a prep school senior writing a novel called Less Than Zero and surrounded by a pack of rich beautiful friends who are themselves shadowed by a serial killer nicknamed the Trawler.

The Shards, Ellis’s hypnotic, prodigious and unsettling new novel-his first in 13 years-is a time machine back to that early 80s milieu. Publisher: Headline Publishing Group ISBN: 9780755396337 Number of pages: 416 Weight: 340 g Dimensions: 196 x 130 x 28 mm You may also be interested in.Bret Easton Ellis’s first novel, Less Than Zero, published in 1985, is hard to shake-a drifting, menacing story about Los Angeles private school kids with monosyllabic names (Clay, Blair, Trent, Rip) who go to parties, do drugs, have sex and try to feel something about any of it. For he strikes the solitary wanderer - and no one can stay protected forever. And with a sadistic, vengeful killer newly released from prison, everyone must be on their guard. Even as the truth behind the facade of this wealthy Boston family's life is revealed, the body count rises. Warren's investigation into the shooting leads her to the impossibly beautiful young widow, Catherine Rose Gagnon, and the darkness in her past. But from the moment Bobby pulls the trigger, killing an armed man holding his own wife and child hostage, it may be Bobby's own life that is lost.ĭetective D. Now find out why.Īs he watches a potentially fatal hostage situation unfold through the scope of his sniper rifle, Massachusetts State Trooper Bobby Dodge knows that he may be all that stands between life and death. IF YOU DON'T SHOOT, WILL HE? The Sunday Telegraph calls it 'fast-moving' and Karin Slaughter says the Sunday Times bestseller is 'an amazing writer'. YOU HAVE A SPLIT SECOND TO MAKE YOUR DECISION. ALONE introduces Lisa Gardner's series character Detective D.

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